Microfilm Ribbon Scanning Solution | Digital ReeL

Is your organization still challenged with handling physical microfilm and legacy reader printers? Perhaps you’ve researched microfilm scanning in the past, but found it too expensive. Not anymore. Digital ReeL is a simple, affordable yet elegant microfilm ribbon scanning solution that presents users a web based app that emulates a reader printer experience.

Microfilm Ribbon Scanning Video

Scott Gaines, Chief Deputy, Lancaster County Nebraska, states “Digital ReeL was by far the most affordable solution we looked at to bring this legacy microfilm archive into the digital age. Researchers can search for all records from our existing system and if the record is older than 1987, they are presented with instructions on how to find the information in Digital ReeL. All of this is completed from a computer, removing any physical microfilm from the retrieval process.”

With the Digital ReeL microfilm ribbon scanning solution, the process of retrieving a document is as easy as typing the keyword or phrase you are searching for. Search for records just like you search the Internet with Google.

Digital ReeL turns any PC, laptop or tablet into a visual representation of a reader. Users easily scroll an entire microfilm ribbon that has been scanned into a digital file. Researchers search and retrieve records with the same micrographic indexing methodology you have for your existing, physical microfilm library. Examples include roll/frame, date, volume, page and case number. In addition, our microfilm ribbon scanning solution includes full text search so that users can find records across the entire archive using key phrases, numbers and words.

BMI regularly converts highly confidential corporate and government records. We have two free-standing facilities located in Northern California that comply with the National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication (NIST SP) 800-53 guidelines.